Drifter’s Hamburgers, Colorado Springs

Drifter's Hamburgers, Colorado Springs

Drifter's Hamburgers, Colorado Springs

DM gave a bad review to Alice’s Mexican restaurant the other day. I guess my item must have been better than his because I give it an A-. Yes, it’s too bright inside and has no atmosphere whatsoever, but the tacos were deeeeeeeeeeeeeeelish!

Alice's Mexican, Colorado Springs

You know we love Nosh!

Nosh, Colorado Springs

Squeak Soda Shop, Colorado Springs. They’re trying to be all old fashioned but their ambience is not old fashioned at all. They have a million different sodas that they mix up special for you (with sugar or splenda, no high fructose corn syrup here), about ten ice cream flavors and a bunch of different grilled cheese sandwiches.  It was all very tasty, but the atmosphere is for sure kid-like. Which is too bad because sometimes adults want to have this kind of food. Also I guess their “plastic” cups are made of corn.

Squeak Soda Shop, Colorado Springs

Last week we went to Acoustic Happy Hour at Cowboys. David Nail was playing a free show.

David Nail Acoustic Happy Hour, Cowboys, Colorado Springs

He has a couple of good songs so we thought we’d check it out. It was fun and he was good, but after drinking some expensive (hey, I thought it was happy Hour!) drinks we got bored and left and headed across the street to Happy Hour at the new Red Martini Piano Bar. As far as I can tell, it’s the same as the old Red Martini Lounge. There was a piano but no one was playing it. It wants to be all upscale but it’s still in that cluster fuck Rum Bay/Blondies/csnightclubs.com area, so…I dunno. Good luck. But Happy Hour was nice. The kids and soldiers weren’t out in force yet, it was mostly people from downtown businesses getting off work. The drinks were really good, not too fruity, didn’t get me drunk, and were cheap- only $4 each. We’ll probably go again, especially since the bartender was really nice.

Red Martini Piano Bar, Colorado Springs

I had a couple of Coconut Frosts.

Red Martini Piano Bar, Colorado Springs

Red Martini Piano Bar, Colorado Springs

DM had a couple whiskeys and a beer.

Red Martini Piano Bar, Colorado SpringsAnd we shared some crazy coconut crusted chicken strips which I'm pretty sure took several months off my life.Red Martini Piano Bar, Colorado Springs

Deluxe Burger, DenverRetro and probably original terazzo floor. Deluxe Burger, Denver

Deluxe Burger, Denver

I had a stilton and carmelized onion burger. I had high hopes!

Deluxe Burger, Denver

For some reason even tho it had carmelized onions on it, they still put raw onions on it, which as you know, I cannot abide! Also, the menu says to ask  for pickles. Why you have to ASK for pickles I don’t know. They should ask YOU if you want pickles. Plus when I asked for pickles when I placed the order sthe server chick said something along the lines of that they come seperately or something. So she couldn’t place them with with order? I was supposed to ask for them AGAIn when I picked up the order? WTF kind of crap is this? I didn’t ask for them. I felt I had annoyed the server enough by then.

Deluxe Burger, Denver

See? I didn’t even finish it.